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Poster:	Tyler	Date:	June 01, 2003 11:45:13am
Forum:	etree	Subject:	what is a .tar extention?

i noticed that the file was .shnf.tar what is the '.tar' extention? i couldn't find it in the FAQ, so pardon the ignorance...

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Poster:	brewster	Date:	June 01, 2003 12:04:59pm
Forum:	etree	Subject:	Re: what is a .tar extention?

.tar is an extension meaning a "tar file". This is an ancient unix mechanism for bundling files together into one file (like zip but without the compression). We believe that it is handled on most OS's (winzip, stuffit, and tar), but would be interested if it is not.

-brewster